Reference News Network, October 20 report: According to the website of the Russian newspaper "Moscow Komsomolec", the city of Chernihiv in Ukraine has announced that the garden square named "Fairy Tale" will be renamed as "Trump" Garden Square. Local authorities said this move is intended to express gratitude.
In the context of Ukraine's comprehensive "name revolution", which ruthlessly abolishes old street and park names, it is not surprising that Chernihiv City has taken such a step. However, some observers point out that this move reflects the abandonment of cultural heritage for political interests.
In 2022, Ukraine began a so-called "name marathon" movement, continuing to give new names to old streets. In this name change campaign, the Ukrainian government renamed Tchaikovsky Street in the suburbs of Kyiv after American diplomat Victoria Nuland. Lev Tolstoy Street in the city of Uzhhorod in the Transcarpathian region was renamed Boris Johnson Street.
In June 2022, the city of Kryvyi Rih decided to abolish all street names related to Russia at once, while paying tribute to Western allies. The city announced plans to rename Pushkin Street as Biden Street, and names such as Kurчатov Street and Lermontov Street would no longer exist.
In 2023, despite the voting results on the "Digital Kyiv" service platform showing that most Kyiv residents supported renaming Theodore Dreiser Street (a famous American realist novelist friendly to the Soviet Union) as Ernest Hemingway Street, the Kyiv City Council insisted on renaming it Ronald Reagan Street to commemorate this former American president.
In April 2019, Kyiv replaced the street named after Soviet hero and reconnaissance officer Ivan Kudryavtsev in the city center with the name of American Senator John McCain, who died in 2018. This was the first time in Kyiv's history that a street was named after an American political figure. (Translated by Tong Shiqun)
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